The underpricing of initial public offerings is a well-documented fact of empirical equity market research. Theories explain this underpricing with market imperfections. We study three empirically relevant IPO mechanisms under almost perfect market conditions in the laboratory: a stylized book building approach, a closed book auction, and an open book auction. We report underpricing in each of ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the scales from GrossarthMaticek in the prediction of cancer and coronary heart disease (CHD). Factor analyses, based on responses from a community sample of 5133 subjects between the ages of 40 and 65, showed that the scale measuring Type 1 (disposition for cancer) correlated highly with the scale measuring Type 2 (disposition for CHD) p...

This paper analyzes the relationship between fund flow and fund managers' trading behavior with regard to the disposition effect, which is as the tendency of fund managers cash more winner stocks of portfolio holdings rather than losers. The evidence shows that the disposition effect (DE) exists among professional fund managers and the effect is linearly and negatively correlated with the magni...

Recent research has mostly examined the role of health communication technology (HCT) in patient empowerment and producing patient-focused outcomes. This study examines HCT a larger context where it is used as tool to improve public health. The objective examine how monitor Covid-19’s spread, social factors affect individual assessment compliance disposition Covid-19 guidelines. Analyzing data ...

Much interest in privacy and trust studies is about shopping, but privacy research in other forms of online activities is beginning to emerge. This study examined the antecedents of privacy, trust and risk as well as their joint effect on two similar but fundamentally different activities: online transactions and retrieval of privileged information. Both activities involve the delivery of priva...